Enrico,
Regarding "why?": I will not totally play here:^)
I admit my compliment to Geany is a slap at other editors. I will own that and it is solely my opinion.
Initially I don't like high light current line, but after a few hours I pine for it. I'm a human looking at a machine. Is harmless distraction so bad a sin after hours of looking at a screen? Maybe it helps my eyes to refocus.
IMO as good an editor as this could not be conceived of and coded without a psycho-visual sensibility on the part of it's creators. I'm sure you must expect some variability:^)
Lee
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:48:19 -0400, Lee wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to toggle highlight current line color the cursor is on on/off? If not a toggle is there a menu somewhere?
Just for my curiosity, why?
Is there a way to toggle line # on/off? I know there's a menu way, but is there a key combo or button?
Again, why? :)
The reason there is no keybinding or other short way of toggling the display of line numbers is because usually users want them always or never. I never guessed they should be easily toggle-able, this is why I'm curious you asking for that.
Regards, Enrico
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Lee Goldleegold@operamail.com wrote:
I admit my compliment to Geany is a slap at other editors. I will own that and it is solely my opinion.
Don't know what that has to do with anything in this thread, but OK.
Initially I don't like high light current line, but after a few hours I pine for it. I'm a human looking at a machine. Is harmless distraction so bad a sin after hours of looking at a screen? Maybe it helps my eyes to refocus.
There are plenty of other things you could look at to refocus your eyes, on or off the computer. I will go a step further from Enrico's polite "curiosity" and say that if it's any trouble at all to add this feature to Geany, it's not worth it. And definitely not worth a keybinding in any case.
Why don't you just write a script to change the configuration (and restart Geany if necessary)? Sure, this will take a few seconds to execute, but what's a few seconds "after hours of looking at a screen"?
John
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:14:08 -0400, John wrote:
Initially I don't like high light current line, but after a few hours I pine for it. I'm a human looking at a machine. Is harmless distraction so bad a sin after hours of looking at a screen? Maybe it helps my eyes to refocus.
Ok. Did you try to change the style for highlighting the current line? Maybe this helps already to relax your eyes. Make it brighter or darker or whatever. I really don't think it's worth making it toggle-able. Alternatively, you could write a plugin to change it in the way you prefer.
Why don't you just write a script to change the configuration (and restart Geany if necessary)? Sure, this will take a few seconds to execute, but what's a few seconds "after hours of looking at a screen"?
Hehe, this is probably a little too heavy :).
Regards, Enrico